New Horizons was designed and built here in Maryland, at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). It's the first mission to the Kuiper Belt, a gigantic zone of icy bodies and mysterious small objects orbiting beyond Neptune. This region also is known as the “third” zone of our solar system, beyond the inner rocky planets and outer gas giants. It doesn't have the fuel to slow down, so it will just be doing a close fly-by tomorrow as it passes by Pluto.

"The Year of Pluto" – NASA New Horizons DocumentaryJune 12, 2015: New Horizons is the first mission to the Kuiper Belt, a gigantic zone of icy bodies and mysterious small objects orbiting beyond Neptune. This region also is known as the “third” zone of our solar system, beyond the inner rocky planets and outer gas giants. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland, designed, built and operates the New Horizons spacecraft, and manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. "The Year of Pluto: NASA New Horizons" is a one hour documentary which takes on the hard science and gives us answers to how the mission came about and why it matters.

Interviews with Dr. James Green, John Spencer, Fran Bagenal, Mark Showalter and others share how New Horizons will answer many questions. New Horizons is part of the New Frontiers Program, managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Greetings from Russia, americans may be proud of themselves and their advantages, it is completely their mission, unseen before. These distances and scales! Just wow, operate the station from a distance of some 6 bil. km!

Hurrah for good old USA tech know-how and ingenuity. The fact that we can do this, and similar missions like the Curiosity Mars rover, brings me great pride. I'll get flamed for this, but compare this mission with that of most other countries. whose primary "mission" is to build crude atomic weapons or subjugate their neighbors with machine guns mounted on Toyota trucks; there is no comparison. We (the USA) have freely shared data from deep space probes, Hubble, and many others, for the advancement of science and mankind.

Pluto in a Minute: New Horizons is Going Dark for Flybyยานอวกาศ “นิวฮอไรซัน” กำลังกลายเป็นยานลำแรกของโลกที่เดินทางไปถ­ึงดาวพลูโต ซึ่งตำแหน่งอยู่บริเวณขอบระบบสุริยจักรวาลใกล้สิ้น­สุดการเดินทางเป็นเวลา9ปีครึ่ง

who the freakin hell do not want to be an astronomers in future generations? we almost know anything about earth but we known less than 5 percent about space and beyond. am i right or am i very right? lol